Machine foe covering coed with silk threads



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E. PRANKE. MACHINE FOR GOVERING CORD WITH'SILK THREADS. N0. 328,884. Patented Oct. 20, 1885.

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E. FRANKE. MACHINE FOR COVERING CORD WITH SILK THREADS. No. 328,884. Patented Oct. 20, 1885.

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MACHINE FOR COVERING 00m) WITH SILK THREADS.

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and adapted to supply .Fig. 3, and Fig. 5 is a detail side view of my' UNITED STATES PATENT. OFFICE.

ERNST FRANKE, OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY.

MACHINE FOR COVERl N-GC ORDS WITH SILK THREADS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent NO. 328,884-, dated October 20, 11885.

Application filed September 25, '1884.

To all whom it may concern/.- Be it known that I, ERNsT FRANKE, of Paterson, in the county of Passaic and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines forGovering Cords with Silk Threads,of which the following is a specification. V

This invention has reference to machines for covering or plating cotton cord usedl for Suspender-ends and other braided articles: with silk threads; and the invention consists, essentially, of the combination of a rotating flier having a spool for supplying the cover-i peculiar construction supported on said flier,

the silk threads so as to wind them uniformly around the cord to be covered. The cord is drawn through the fixed tubular spindle of the machine, and its tension kept uniform by draw and feed pul-: leys above and below the same, respectively.

The invention consists, further, of the construction of the comb, as will appear more fully hereinafter, and finally be pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a side elevation of one end of my machine for covering or plating cords with silk threads. Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the same with part of the frame removed, also showing part of a duplicate machine on the: left of the figure; Fig. 3, a detail vertical transverse section of a flier with my improved comb for guiding the silk threads uniformly to the cord to be covered. Fig. 4 is aplan of improved comb for covering-machines.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

My improvement is designed to be used with machines for covering or plating cotton cord with silk threads, which machines are well known, and are arranged in a series or gang on a common supporting-frame, and driven from a common shaft, K, by means of suitable belts, m, leading from a pulley, m, on said shaft K, and which connect said shaft with the rotary fliers of the covering-machines, and a series of shafts, H, and bevel-gears H, re-

said shaft K, by which the pulleys that feed. the cords to be covered at uniform speed Serial No. 143,932. (No model.)

' through the covering-machines are operated.

The cords are unwound from the bobbins A, supported at the lower part of the machine, and are wound up after being covered on reels A at the top part of the supporting-frame, which reels receive rotary motion by a belt,

7 G and pulley G on the shaft of the upper draw-pulleys, G, located above the covering machines.

The fliers B of the covering-machines are a supported on a fixed tubular spindle, B, and

rotated by belt m and pulley 0 from the main driving-shaft K, as shown in Fig. 2, the transmitting-pulley 0 being provided with a clutch device, 0, that engages the rotating flier B of the covering or plating machine when the pulley G is lifted on the hollow supporting; spindle B bymeans of a lever, D, said lever being retained in lifted position by a pivoted and weighted latch, D. Vhen the latch D v is released from the lever D, the latter is dropped, and thereby the transmitting-pulley O lowered, so that it releases the flier B and interrupts the motion of the same,as shown in Fig. 3. X

The flier B supports on a fixed vertical spindle, b, a spool, E, on which the silk threads used for covering are wound. As many threads as are required for covering the cord are doubled and wound up together on the spool. On the rotating flier B is also supported an upright arm, I), which carries by a sleeve, r, and set-screw s, an angular arm, b to the vertical part of which is applied a comb, F,

that is adjusted higher or lower on said arm and secured by means of a clamping-screw, b that presses the supporting-cheeks f z of the comb together and fastens them to the arm I). The comb F consists of a number of horizontal steel reeds, f, which are bent up at their outer free ends at different degrees of inclination, as shown in Fig. 5, the bent ends f servlng to facilitate the inserting of the silk threads between the reeds of the comb and prevent their escape from the same. When the machine isput in operation for covering the cotton cord, the different silk threads are guided through between the reeds of the comb and conducted from the same to the cord to be covered. They are then wound evenly around the cord by the rotations of the flier, while the cord is drawn forward through the hollow supportingspindle and the usual guide-eye, 9, above the same by the drawpulley G. The threads are thereby wound up in a regular manner on the cords, so as to produce a better covering of the same than with the covering-machines heretofore in use, in which as many spools were arranged on the flier as silk threads were used for covering the cords.

The flier carries also a third spindle, b, which serves for properly balancing the flier and for putting on a new spool before the silk threads of the first spool have been entirely wound around the cotton cords. draw-pulley G, arranged above the guide-eye y of the covering machine, a feed-pulley, G,

is arranged below the covering-machine, intermediately between the same and the bobbin,

' from which the cotton cord is fed to the machine.

clutches G, for being quickly thrown out of gear when it is desired to stop any individual covering-machine and its feed and draw pulthrough the spindle of the covering-machine.

The work of the upper pulley, G, is thereby accomplished by the upper and lower pulleys,

G G, whereby irregular strains on the cord are prevented.

The essential features of my invention consist in the arrangement of the comb in connec- Y tion with the rotating flier and its spool, and in the combination of the upper and lower pulleys with the same, as the remaining fea-. tures and the different accessories of the covering-machines have been used heretofore and form no part of my invention.

The advantages of my improvements are, first, that the construction of the coveringmachines is simplified, as the large number of individual thread spools heretofore arranged on the flier is dispensed with, and in place thereof a single spool used upon which are wound all the covering-threads, and, second, that by means of the comb the covering silk threads are wound up in a more regular manner on the cord, so thata finer and more glossy appearance is imparted to the same, even with a smaller number of threads, as compared to the machines heretofore in use.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. The combination of a fixed tubular spindle, a rotary flier turning thereon, upwardlyextending spindles for the covering-thread spools supported on said flier, and a comb having a number of reeds between which the individual covering-threads are passed before they are wound around the cord to be covered, said comb being also supported on said flier,

substantially as described.

Besides the The lower pulley, G, is rotated at the 1 same speed as the upper pulley, G, by means of suitable transmitting shafts, H, and bevel-- wheels H, both pulleys being provided with i 2, The combination of a fixed tubular spin dle, a rotary flier turning thereon, upwardlyextending spindles for the coveringthread spools supported on said flier, an upright arm also Supported on said flier, and a comb having a number of reeds between which the individual covering threads are passed before they are wound around the cord to be covered, said comb being adj ustably supported by said upright arm, substantially as described.

3. The combination of a fixed tubular spindle, a rotary flier turning thereon, upwardlyextending spindles for the covering-thread spools supported on said flier, an upright arm also supported on said flier and provided with a horizontal sleeve at its upper end, a comb having two supporting-cheeks, and a number of reeds between which the individual covering-threads are passed before they are wound around the cord to be covered, an angle-bar,

one arm of which is adjustably supported in said sleeve, and a clampingscrew passing through said checks for securing said comb to the other end of said angle-bar, substantially as described.

4. The combination of a fixed tubular spindle, a rotary flier turning thereon, means for "rotating said flier, upwardly-extending spindles for the covering-thread spools supported on said flier, a comb havinga number of reeds between which the individual covering-threads are passed before they are wound around the cord to be covered, said comb also being supported on said flier, feed-pulleys below and draw-pulleys above said covering devices, and

a system of shafts and bevel-gears connecting said pulleys with the main driving shaft, whereby they are rotated at the same speed, substantially as described.

5. A comb for silk-covering machines, consisting of a series of parallel reeds having bentup outer ends, the bent-up ends at one side being longer than at the-other, the bodies and ends of said reeds being in the same plane, substantially as described.

6. A comb for silk-covering machines, consisting of a series of reeds having theirends bent up at different degrees of inclination, the bodies and ends of said reeds being in the same plane, substantially as described.

. 8. A comb for silk-covering machines, consisting of a series of reeds having bent-up outer ends, the bodies and ends of said reeds being in the same plane, supporting-cheeks, and a screw for clamping the cheeks together, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name in pres- LOUIS C. RAEGENER, PAUL GOEPEL. 

